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January 6, 2015 Dates announced for Official Tournament and Club Word List 2014, aka OTCWL3

The new lexicon will be released 60 days after a version of Zyzzyva that supports permitted use of the lexicon has been published. The release date will not be before April 1, 2015.

Until the new lexicon is released, the Official_Tournament_and_Club_Word_List for all non-Collins club and tournament events is OTCWL2.1, which adds GEOCACHE, -ES, -ED, -ING to the OTCWL2 issued in 2006.

Merriam-Webster has announced that OSPD5 will go on sale on August 6, and not as originally planned on August 11. Copies of OSPD5 and TWL2014 will still be available at the 2014 National SCRABBLE Championship.

Can-Am qualification standings are now being updated automatically after each rated tournament. Players interested in participating should follow the event page instructions to register before the deadline.

The NASPA Rating software has been updated so that it now automatically assigns initial ratings to players based on their existing rating in the other lexicon, if they have tournament experience but are new to CSW or TWL play. In conducting a thorough review of how the previous manual process had been implemented, we found several cases in which players had incorrectly been treated as entirely new to tournament play. We have therefore had to take the extraordinary measure of rerating all tournaments beginning at the earliest such incident (July 1, 2011) and proceeding to the present day. We apologize for the inconvenience; please understand that the measure was important for maintaining the consistency and accuracy of our rating system.

Our initial guest room block at the Hyatt has sold out, and we have booked overflow space with two other nearby hotels, and are looking for additional space. Please follow our website for further updates.

Hasbro has announced the first ever SCRABBLE Word Showdown; this resulted in a few media hits for NASPA.

February 27, 2014: New Code of Conduct Posted

The NASPA Advisory Board approved a new version of the Code of Conduct. While the new CoC took effect on January 2, 2014, it was just posted to the NASPA wiki, so will only apply for any disciplinary matters arising after February 27, 2014.

February 23, 2014: More to Tweet About

Beginning this month, the Word of the Day and all rated tournaments will
be automatically tweeted from the NASPA Twitter account, @NASPA.